Thanksgiving 2021

 We spent the week of Thanksgiving up in Ohio this year. Sarah had multiple appointments at the Cleveland Clinic over the course of two days prior to Thanksgiving day. Because of the nature of one of Sarah's treatments and with the craziness of COVID still lurking around we chose to have a quiet Thanksgiving Day with just my in-laws. 

During our trip we were able to visit with my brother and his family for a hot minute or two. My kids were able to see most of their cousins with the exception of my sister's family who we did not see at all because 5 of their 6 family members came down with COVID in the two weeks prior to our trip. I did not have the luxury of potentially exposing my family to that virus no matter how small the transmission chance was. I cannot protect Sarah from every circumstance where she may come in contact with any flu/cold, but I can limit the known potential exposures. Because of this we were not able to see everyone we would have liked to. 

I had a nice visit with my parents whom I stayed with the 5 days we were in town. It was probably one of my best visits since we moved away. I enjoyed being with my parents even though we didn't have too much time together with Sarah's appointments, Thanksgiving in different locations, and then visiting with friends late on Friday afternoon; the time we did have together was nice and I enjoyed myself very much. 

My parents, my girls, and I shopped at a quaint set of small businesses on Friday morning(ish) called Grand Pacific Junction. It is one of my favorite places to shop because the shops are all independently owned and two of them are resale shops. I can usually find some pretty good items in those resale shops that I love and are an extremely reasonable price.

Friday night we visited with old friends that we haven't seen in years. It was so, so good to see everyone. Old friendships are the best in my opinion. We picked up right where we left off like no time had passed at all. 

We brought our dog Max with us and he did great. He gets along well with my parents dog and he behaved himself impeccably - which I was nervous that he would not.  I think I would bring him again (as long as staying at my parents house is an option).